I don't know what would be the best way to use them. Space efficency for the 1x1 , but requires quite some tinkering to find a way to reach the connections, heat pipes can't go undergound, outputing a solid without configurable inserter while needing 2 different liquid is a puzzle. ( there are tools...

I also have a sneaking suspicion that the kinds of players who would assume the "real game" doesn't start until you get bots are also the kinds of players who play with biters disabled; which virtually removes 100% of the challenge from the game, it just becomes a waiting game at that point. Your s...

I can't recreate the sloshing on my demo world. Tell me exactly the conditions you can create it, if you would. You mentioned it may be due to differently-sized pipes, according to something Bob had to fix. I'm not able to recreate the right conditions even with differently-sized pipes, so I'm goin...

Is there something I'm missing Yes, the two FFF that announced it https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-304 and https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-305 and the thousands of post discussing it https://forums.factorio.com/73684 For the rest, it seems that the first part is a pretty objective definiti...

In some particular case you can use a pump or underground pipes back to back, it can act as a straight pipes that doesn't connect on the sides. Before the "fluid-mixing-prevention" the game would have allowed you to place the pipe, but it would have connected the 2 fluids , water and heavy oil, whic...

I've been trying to find a forum thread that explains belt counters in detail. Here you have a "dry ore patch train restrictor", it reads on chest, not on belts, but the use case described is quite similar : it can be used to detect if the miners on a patch needs to be moved ( run dry/ material cea...

Only the solid fuel chemical plant is running regularly, everything else just starts and stops sporadically. You can diagnose the cause of the problem when you hover a machine on the right pannel, there is a "status :" under the health, it can tell you why the machines stops when they do, for examp...

Is there a legal place to find the previous acts ?
I'll wait to see the next one anyway:)

pictures Hi i saw the picture and thought that maybe there is something else that reduce the flow rate of your design with factorissimo. You can see the blue diamonds where the pipe connect between the inside and the outside. The blue diamond means that the connexion is both way, the liquid can go ...

I suggest sticking with circuit reading the amount of ore on the belt as you might only require up to a dozen pieces of wire near the station as opposed to wiring each drill together... You can read the quantity of ore covered by the miner itself, or you can also read the quantity of ore left in th...

Can't you simply wire the miners up and read the ore patch quantities that way? You can, I didn't even know ! I wonder since when it exist ! The original contraption still allow for collecting things that are not from miners, aka the case where you place your centrifuge next to the uranium patch, y...

If my 2cts could help there you go, else just ignore : I have received "academical training" as in "studying at school" stuff about legal aspect of IP, also advertising, from this my personnal feeling is that is very "political" /"lobbyistic", many differences in the details of specific licensing oc...

I have five belts feeding ten different items into a cargo wagon. Inside the wagon I want exactly 100 of each item. Is there a way to make the inserters switch to a different item after there are 100 of one? Image of current setup Made me think about this one : https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic...

And if you want extra control, you can use the previous suggestion using a constant combinator but place a power switch between the constant combinator and the rest of electric network. This means you can turn on/off the power switch instead of a constant combinator, and power switch are available ...

What i often end up doing is copy paste a previous outpost, when in a game with many generic outpost, i try to find on the map one that has the approximate same size/shape with miners on it and i just copy the whole thing including station miners and belts that connects them and sometimes defense al...

However upon entry of the train into the station, all inserters insert at least one item into the train which is in violation of the circuit condition. I remember seeing this behavior long ago, designed my way around it not understanding. This is how circuit networks work: value computed on one tic...

You do realise that when you start the game you CAN'T be overloaded with information, since there is NOTHING that Alt-view adds right ? The first thing it may show will be the direction in which the burner miner output, which is useful and also is very small. Then it will show the receipe on the fur...

Belts should have had one lane. Sure thing, I'll get right to it on the day that people stop asking for the game to be dumbed down to match their own personal play style. But don't let facts get in the way of drama. That always goes down well on internet discussion boards. Wasn't your suggestion se...

And if you want extra control, you can use the previous suggestion using a constant combinator but place a power switch between the constant combinator and the rest of electric network. This means you can turn on/off the power switch instead of a constant combinator, and power switch are available f...

You have to use filters as circuit signals can not stop inserters from *dropping* things into chests that they already grabbed. That's what i think too after my testing, when you try to make the inserter react to its own holding it's too late, it will drop it anyway. The inserter then should not pi...